Anagrams


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An Anagram, as you know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. No letters can be used twice or left out.

The following ones are exceptionally clever (someone out there either has way too much time on their hands or is deadly at Scrabble!):

WORD/PHRASE ANAGRAM

Dormitory- Dirty Room

Evangelist- Evil's Agent

Desperation- A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code- Here Come Dots

Slot Machines- Cash Lost in 'em

Animosity- Is No Amity

Mother-in-law - Woman Hitler

Snooze Alarms - Alas! No More Z's

Alec Guinness - Genuine Class

Semolina - Is No Meal

The Public Art Galleries - Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point - I'm a Dot in Place

The Earthquakes - That Queer Shake

Eleven plus two - Twelve plus one

Contradiction - Accord not in it

Here are some longer and even more amazing ones:

"To be or not to be: that is the question, whether its nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

ANAGRAM:

"In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

And for a contemporary one:

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

ANAGRAM:

"A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!"

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"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

ANAGRAM:

"A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!"

That one doesn't work, many more letters in the anagram

And the Hamlet one has more characters in the original line too according to MS Word

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